Labor Union Movies

Documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike, one of the bitterest industrial disputes in British history, with stories from...

In the 1970's, filmmakers Tom Burger, Bill McKiggan and Chuck Lapp began documenting the history and current struggles of inshore fishermen in...

With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade is a 1979 documentary film directed by Lorraine Gray about the General Motors...

The Confederation of Haitian Workers (CTH) invited an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) delegation to Haiti to learn about their fight against...

This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where primitve conditions and speed-ups often cost...

The video documentary "A Struggle to Remember: Fighting for Our Families" puts faces and narratives to the story of the struggle for family leave in...

Chronicles the industrial action leading up to the deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation.

Blair Brown narrates this gripping account of a community's struggle to preserve its way of life. In the summer of 1892, a bitter conflict erupted at...

Eugene Debs & the American Movement is an educational video that documents fifty years of long-suppressed history. Using extensively researched...

Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s.

This feature film made during an exceptionally feverish period of popular revolt that saw the coming together of Quebec’s 3 main unions (CSN,...

In 1981-2, the Kartemquin filmmakers returned to the Taylor Chain plant to show labor and management working together against the odds, trying to...

Athletic star William Russell puts on his boxing gloves for this waterfront drama.

A documentary of Janesville trying to recover from the closing of the GM automobile plant, in the midst of very divisive and historic political...

A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film...

Presents a case history of a grievance case from the initial causes to the final settlement. Shows how grievance hearings enable labor unions and...

A description of the work of a research director of a United Steel Workers Union in Canada. The painstaking research and analyses of economic...

Documentary overview of the life and causes of "Mother" Jones.

After his Tokyo farewell ceremony, Yamamoto's ashes were sent to Kyoto on March 9. Many friends and citizens gathered at his home in Uji. On the 15th...